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2020 Legislative Update

2020 Legislative Update

2020 Legislative Update

January 23, 2020 Week in Review

In this Issue: th The second week of the 88 General Assembly was full of activity centered around Week in Review………....P.1 subcommittee and committee work. Hundreds of bills have now been filed and are making their way through the legislative process. Legislators were busy with Bills on the Move….....….P. 1 committee work and visiting with constituents that descended upon the Capitol. Additionally, several budget subcommittees met this week and heard from various School Safety Bureau…..P. 2 speakers to educate the committee members on various topics related to the funds received from each individual budget. This is a process that will continue throughout In the News……………...P. 2 the session. Caucus Update………….P. 2 The non-partisan Legislative Services Agency published revenue numbers for Next Week Schedule...…P. 3 December 2019. The state took in $44.1M more than December 2018, which represents a 6.6% increase from the last year. Notably this puts revenue 2.1% higher Key 2020 Dates…….…...P. 4 than the projects set by the Revenue Estimating Conferences December projection.

While the growth isn’t exceptional, revenue continues to beat projections, which is a good thing and indicates has a healthy, growing economy.

Bills on the Move

Several bills moved out of subcommittee and a handful were voted out of full House or Senate committees this week. Bills of interest that moved were:

• Driving Farm Equipment. SSB 3001 This bill passed the full Transportation committee in the Senate and changes the definition of where a person without a driving license who is driving a tractor or implement of husbandry from a

Contact Information farm building to a farm operation. Current law only allows driving to an adjacent or nearby farm operation; this bill strikes the language limiting the David Adelman driving to an adjacent or nearby farm operations. 515-491-1015 (m) • Vaping. SSB 3052 moved through a Senate subcommittee and would include [email protected] vaping products under Iowa’s Smoke Free Air Act, which would prohibit vapers from vaping in public places. The bill now goes to the full Senate Human Matt Hinch 202-365-9449 (m) Resources committee. [email protected] • Tobacco Age Limit. SSB 3016 is a bill that moves the smoking age from 18 to 21 in Frank Chiodo Iowa law. The bill moved through a State 515-778-5245 (m) Government subcommittee this week, [email protected] which was chaired by Senator Cournoyer (R – LeClaire). Cournoyer had teenager Sara Allen 515-778-9516 constituents phone into the meeting to [email protected] express their reasons for supporting the bill. The bill now moves to the full committee. • Insulin Prices. HSB 501 was voted out of the House Human Resources committee unanimously. The bill caps the amount an insured will pay for insulin drugs that are a part of their insurance plan formularies.

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Governor Launches Iowa Governor’s School Safety Bureau The Governor announced the formation of the Iowa Governor’s School Safety Bureau this week. The bureau’s purpose is to focus on school safety, being proactive rather than reactive to school safety concerns. The bureau includes the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Education. Three specific areas will be the focus of preparedness: training, reporting and investigation. For training purposes, the Bureau will include a full-time core set of instructors dedicated to providing school safety training throughout the state upon request for students, faculty and staff members, and first responders. For reporting purposes, an anonymous statewide tool that will allow individuals to report concerning behaviors without fear of retaliation. For investigation, a dedicated team of special agents will assist in cyber investigations to monitor social media, messaging apps and gaming platforms to flag concerning behaviors/threats. In the News Below are articles of interest from the week. Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns.

1. Four Cities Break Records in 2019 as metro construction Eclipses $2B 2. Senator Grassley Says More Good Ag News For Iowa 3. Majority Leader Windshitl, Ready to Listen, Praised for Fairness 4. Speaker Grassley will Post Record-Breaking Fundraising Haul 5. Grassley Signs USMC, Sending it to Trump’s Desk 6. Iowa Law Proposal to Protect People with Pre-Existing Conditions if ACA is Overturned Iowa Caucus Update With the first-in-the-nation Iowa Caucus less than two weeks away. Here’s some quick facts about the that may be of interest.

• The latest Focus on Rural America poll of Iowa finds Vice President at 24 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 18 percent, Pete Buttigieg at 16 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders at 14 percent, and Klobuchar at 11 percent. Sanders (+5), Buttigieg (+4), and Klobuchar (+3) have gained ground since September, when the previous survey was released.

• RealClearPolitics’ average of Iowa Caucus polling shows Biden (21 percent) slightly ahead of Sanders (17.3), Warren (16.7), and Buttigieg (16.3).

• Since the establishment of the first-in-the-nation caucuses in 1972, the winner of the caucuses has gone on to capture the Democratic nomination 67 percent of the time (8-of-12), with two of these outliers won by “uncommitted” and another being native son ’s rout in 1992. The only Democrats to finish behind a fellow candidate in Iowa and go on to win the nomination are George McGovern (3rd behind “uncommitted” and Ed Muskie in 1972), (3rd behind and in 1988), and (4th behind Harkin, “uncommitted,” and in 1992).

Year Iowa Caucuses winner Eventual nominee 2016 (49.8%) Hillary Clinton 2012 (98%) Barack Obama 2020 Legislative Update

2008 Barack Obama (38%) Barack Obama 2004 (38%) John Kerry 2000 (63%) Al Gore 1996 Bill Clinton (98%) Bill Clinton 1992 Tom Harkin (76%) Bill Clinton 1988 Dick Gephardt (31%) Michael Dukakis 1984 (49%) Walter Mondale 1980 (59%) Jimmy Carter 1976 Uncommitted (37%) Jimmy Carter 1972 Uncommitted (36%) George McGovern

• is just as much of a tossup as Iowa is, with the latest Suffolk/Boston Globe poll finding Sanders (16 percent), Vice President Joe Biden (15), Pete Buttigieg (12) and Warren (10) in a dead heat. Nearly half of the respondents say they could change their mind prior to the primary. The old saying is “three tickets out of Iowa,” but with New Hampshire a tossup, Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer flush with cash and focused on some of the later contests, and the strong possibility that more than one candidate will be able to declare victor on caucus night, Iowa may not be the graveyard that it usually is.

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Key Dates for 2020 Session The new Iowa Legislative Session Timetable has been published. Here is the link and included below is important dates as we approach the 2020 Iowa legislative session.

January 13 First Day of Legislative Session

January 14 Governor's Budget Released Governor gives her Condition of the State Address to Joint Session January 24 Final day for individual Senator/Representative Bill Requests

February 21 First Funnel. All Senate and House bills must be out of one full committee

March 20 Second Legislative Funnel. Corresponding chamber must vote bills out of a full committee to remain “alive”

April 6 Amendments need not be filed on the day preceding floor debate

April 21 100th Day of the session. Per diem expenses for legislators end.

Katelyn O’Hare I Frank Chiodo I David Adelman I Matt Paul I Matt Hinch I Jimmy Centers I Sara Allen

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